Re: ALTER TABLE & COLUMN - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE & COLUMN
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Msg-id 200212021823.gB2INct12848@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: ALTER TABLE & COLUMN  (Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>)
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Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> >> Actually this seems to be one of the rare areas where MySQL is better.
> >> PG 7.3 improves a lot though.
>
> Without triggers and referential integrity, changing columns is a
> lot easyer ;)

And if you want to be able to roll it back in an aborted transaction.
Many commerical databases don't even get this one right.

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